Top 70 Quotes by Harold Prince

About Harold Prince

These are some quotes by American author Harold Prince Producer, who was born on January 30, 1928.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

Harold Prince

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

Harold Prince

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

Harold Prince

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

Harold Prince

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Harold Prince

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

Harold Prince

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Harold Prince

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Harold Prince

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

Harold Prince

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

Harold Prince

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